Conceptualizations of workplace bullying: Gendered rather than gender neutral?

Journal of Personnel Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 157-165

  Escartín, Jordi ^a   Salin, Denise ^b   Rodríguez Carballeira, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotional abuse; Gender; Mobbing; Severity; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

EID: 84155175850     PISSN: 18665888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000048     Document Type: Article

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